Disproportional voting rights and shareholder wealth: the evidence from the US dual class firms

I use a unique sample of 617 U.S. firms adopting the dual class structures for at least a period of their lifetime from 1994 to 2013 to examine the relation between the presence of disproportional voting rights and outside shareholder wealth. I find that the presence of restricted-voting shares is i...

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Main Author: Luo, Jiannan
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50862/